Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — Stealing the Russian Crown. [ARTICLE]

Stealing the Russian Crown.

Several attempts have been made to steal the Russian crown from its repose in the Kremlin at Moscow. The latest, says the Philadelphia Press, was in the reign of the Emperor Nicholas, about tho beginning of the Crimoan war. A grand master of the court named De Staekelberg was said to be at the head of the conspiracy. The actual robbers, two young men of good families in Moscow, had obtained access to tho repository of the precious treasure when accidentally detected by a sentinel. Thev were captured and imprisoned.

They confessed that Dc Stackolberg had supplied thorn with information ns to the locality of the crown jewels, and how to obtain access to them, and that the intent iou was to break up the crown and dispose of the gold in Europe, and the gems, so fur ns possible, in Egypt and other Oriental countries. CJrinevitch the one who had taken tho. more active part in the attempted robbery, died undei the knout. Znkhurjevski, the other robbor, was banished to farther Siberia I)e Stackolberg protested his innocence and there being no evidence against bin: other than the confession of the criminals he was dismissed from his post at court but, not otherwise punished.